The lost language of symbolism : an inquiry into the origin of certain letters, words, names, fairy-tales, folklore, and mythologies (1912)
Bayley, Harold · New York : Barnes & Noble · leaf 378
discovered in Phcenicia, Egypt, and Cyprus. The pillaror betyle—compare our beetle^ Anglo-Saxon bueia—wzs theemblem of the universal Axis, and the Bird upon the topmay be described as a pigeon^ the Father Ever-ExistentSun, or a peacock. Nowadays this royal symbol is called asceptre—originally… … sceptre is tipped with an Iris or fleur-de~lys. The Maoris ofNew Zealand possess a greenstone pigeon which has beencarried about by them for untold centuries during theirmultitudinous wanderings. This symbolic bird, called theKoROTANGi, the Great Fire-Hot Sun, the Ever-Exist-ent(?), used to be set…
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